we sat down a little while ago with the former speaker, willie brown. he said democrats don't need the republicans. we need him to comment on whether or not the party is still relevant. you're the chairman of the republican party. >> part of what happened last week is they spent $70 million. that was unprecedented. it's unprecedented nationally. that made it very hard to compete. republicans now need to do what i call foot in the door momentum. they need to find a niche and an area where they can connect with voters and stand on that issue and then wait for the economy sadly to go down, because it is, and then be there to be opportunistic and make their way back. >> okay. the reason that california units is twofold. one is to support the tax plan, but the other thing is proposition 32, which republicans put on the ballot to try to take unions out of the political equation. you invited a fight you couldn't win and they cleaned your clock. >> thank you very much for saying that. i was so powerful that i did all of that. in fact, that was put on the ballot